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SASH PASTENER.

No. 572,591. Patented Dec. 8, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALVIN N. IVOODARD, OF MANSFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO JAMES T. SAWHILL, JOHN L. SAWVHILL, AND ABRAHAM SMALL, OF

. SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,591, dated December 8, 18 6.

Application filed May 9, 1896. Serial No. 590,844. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALVIN N. WooDARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash-Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a device by means of which the upper and lower sashes of a window may be securely locked or fastened together when both are closed and which may be equally securely fastened or locked when partly opened, the device serving also to prevent rattling in the sashes.

In carrying out my invention I make use of a metallic piece which is fastened to one of the stiles or the mectingrail of the lower sash at the junction of the rail and stile and is provided with upward projections which are supplied with set-screws, which set-screws are adapted to cooperate with independent nuts or sockets arranged, respectively,'in the case and in a stile of the upper sash, all as I will proceed now more particularly to set forth and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fragment of the case and the adjacent corners of the upper and lower sashes, including my invention, in position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the male member of my fastener. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the female or socket member, and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section showing the members engaged.

I have shown my invention as applied to a window in which the sashes are hung in usual manner by ropes and weights, but it will be understood that my invention is entirely independent in operation ofthe means whereby sashes may be raised and lowered.

The upper sash, a and its meeting-rail Cb, the lower sash b and its meeting-rail b, and

the case a may be of usual construction. The

male member (see Fig. 2) of my fastening is composed of a horizontal piece (I, which may be secured to the top of the meeting-rail and the lower sash by means of a screw, and for further security it may be provided with the flange e, which may be screwed to the face of the meeting-rail or to the stile. An upward projection f extends laterally from the piece d and is adapted to the jamb. When the fastener is designed for use in windows whose sashes are hung by cords and weights, this projection f may be supplied with a curved extension 9 to receive the sash-cord, and such curved extension 9 also will serve to stiffen the projection f. The piece d is also provided with an upward projection 72-, which is alined with the stile of the upper sash. Each of the projections f and h is provided with a setscrew '5 and j, respectively, and these setscrews maybe secured in screw-threaded holes in the projections themselves, or such holes may be made in bosses 7c and Z on the respective projections. The set-screws are made with shoulders m for a purpose presently appearing. The jamb has sunk into it in any suitable number the female member of the fastening. (See Fig. 3.) This female member consists of a face-plate it, provided with holes for the passage of screws or other fastening devices, and a screw-threaded boss 0, into which screw-threaded boss the set-screw t is inserted in order to secure the lower sash in any desired position. The stile of the upper sash also is provided with any suitable number of these female members to receive the screw j of the projection h in order to secure the upper sash in any desired position. Obviously the two sashes may be secured together independently of the set-screw i, and

so also the lower sash may be secured independently of the set-screwj, but when both set-screws are used the two sashes may be partly opened or entirely closed and both of them locked in either position.

\Vhen the set-screws are turned in to their full depth, so that their shoulders m come into contact with the bosses 7.", Z or the projections f h, the two sashes will be drawn together so closely as to prevent rattling of the sashes one upon the other and within the jambs.

The male and female members of my fastening may be produced by casting or other-' wise.

My fastening affords a window-lock which cannot be picked and which cannot be dis- ICC) turbed surreptitiously from the outside, and it enables the occupant of a room to open the Window at the top and bottom and lock the sashes in that position Without danger of entrance of outsiders excepting by the breaking of the glass or the cutting of the sashes.

hat I claim is 1. The herein-described sash-fastener, or Window-lock,comprising a male member, composed of a horizontal piece (Z, the upper projection f extending laterally from the horizontal piece d and adapted to the jamb of the Window and provided with a set-screw i, one or more female members with which the setscreW cooperates, a second upward projection h, extending from one end of the horizontal piece and in line with the stile of a sash, and having a set-screw j for cooperation with fe- 

